Box Score ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sophomore Kayla Valentine scored a team-high 21 points and teammates Jasmine Green and freshman point guard Danielle Yamauchi both contributed seven rebounds but, for the second consecutive night, the Dominican University of California women's basketball team was felled by a strong second-half performance by the University of Alaska Anchorage.

The 4-0 Seawolves, the No. 12 ranked team in the USA Today's NCAA Division II pre-season poll, outscored the Lady Penguins (0-4) 60-17 over the final 20 minutes to hand Dominican a 98-50 defeat on Saturday.

Valentine netted her 21 points on 8-of-17 shooting. Yamauchi and Kimi Nakamura added nine points and four assists apiece. All three had a hand in an impressive comeback by the Lady Penguins late in the first half.

“The first half was great. We got a chance to see what this team is capable of doing,” said Dominican Head Coach Brianna Chambers. “The second half we showed our youth and inexperience again. But we are getting better.”

After UAA scored the first five points of the non-league contest, Dominican battled to stay close but the Seawolves eventually built a 16-point cushion, 33-17, with 7:36 to go before intermission. Then the Lady Penguins put together their best stretch of basketball in the two-game road trip to Alaska.

Yamauchi launched the rally with a basket, two of her eight first-half points. Then Valentine, who scored 14 of her points in the first half on 6-of-10 shooting, nailed one of her two 3-pointers in the half. Suddenly Dominican produced a 16-5 run that pulled them within five points, 38-33, of nationally-ranked UAA.

“We got down, fought back. It was really good,” Chambers said.

However, after halftime, the Seawolves came out and scored the first 12 points of the second half to build their lead to 17 before Valentine recorded Dominican's first hoop at the 16:56 mark.

Green had three offensive rebounds for the Lady Penguins but the rest of the team had only three between them as Dominican was outrebounded 57-30 in the game. Green also was the only Dominican player who had more assists (3) than turnovers (2) in her 30 minutes.

All-American candidate Hanna Johansson of Sweden led all scorers with 24 points on 8-of-11 shooting from the floor and 8-of-14 shooting from the foul line in 23 minutes of playing time.

Dominican comes home on Tuesday, November 22 to host Chico State in a non-league game at the Conlan Center at 7:00 p.m. The game will be broadcast live online with audio at http://radio.dominican.edu and video at www.dominicanathletics.com/livevideo.